The art trail

One of the first things we do when we get back to Athens is go to Kolonaki and look at some of the  private galleries.  Not that much to look at this time, as everything closes down in August, and some of the galleries had already closed in late July.

The bus dropped us off at Syntagma Square, We walked past the Houses of Parliament, in front of which the shrine for the victims of the Tempi rail disaster has been .set up

First stop, the shop of the Gikas-Hatzikyriakos wing of the Benaki Museum

This platter on the window -  I could not tell who the artist is

bowl by Yannis Zois

print of the face of a young boy in the Fayoun style by Yannis Moralis

Fani Skoulikidi-Boukovala

Iosifina Kosma

Zoumboulakis Gallery:   Paintings by Knesse Douglas - Dreaming was not Enough

Vessels of Fruit, 2026, (oil, acrylic on canvas)

Untitled, 2026, (acrylic and oil on canvas)

A Vessel to Carry the Ocean, 2026. (oil and acrylic on canvas)

Athens Gallery of Art: Various artists

Stathis-Alexandros Zoulias, To the Castle, 2021

Vanessa Anastasopoulou,  Shardroot, 2025

Kez, Nyra, 2025

Oh dear! I did not record who this is by and I really like it.

Kalfayan Galleries, Konstantinos Mouchtaridis, The Earliest Winds

Vardaris, 2026

Lyvas, 2026

Zephyros, 2026

Windward, 2026

We then went to Philippou, our favourite taverna in Kolonaki, to have lunch

We sat on the terrace

but, as we sat by the window, we had a good view of the inside.

Art and Festival

Now that summer is here, there's so much going on in our area and it's hard fitting it all in. This was certainly the case last weekend. The three-week long Open Studios art exhibition in artists'  homes started last Saturday. We normally try to see as much as we can, but we are off to Greece tomorrow, so our only chance was last weekend. But, there was also a festival in Victoria Park, as well as Potfest in Compton Verney and the Thai Festival in Warwick. 

How to fit it all in?

This post is about what we did on the Saturday. 

We did not manage to see much of the work of local artists. I was also very disappointed that Rhoda Bertz did not exhibit this year, as she is my favourite local artist. This is the link to her 2022 exhibition but you can see more by using the search button on the right of this page.

This is what we did manage to see:

Sue Bent:

Her paintings are exhibited in her garden studio. Vibrant colours, domestic scenes with a focus on still life.

Arts, Eats and Treats Festival:

We then walked to Victoria Park for the Arts, Eats and Treats Festival. A new one for Leamington, so we were keen to see what it was like. It was fun, but we were a bit underwhelmed given that we had been to the Peace Festival the previous weekend.

cakes,

lots of vans serving hot food

drinks

I had not come across these before - they are water lily seeds which have been fried with different flavours. I tried some, they are not bad.

We wandered around for a while, then walked through the Pump Room Gardens and the Jephson Gardens, and got to:

St Nicholas House:

where various artists were exhibiting. I looked at the paintings of Janette George and the ceramics of Katherine Taylor.

We spent Sunday at Compton Verney looking at the work of the ceramic artists that were exhibiting at Potfest. 

We never made it to the Thai Festival. Next year maybe...